Installation
-
-At this time there are no available builds for download. If you want
-to see Chimera in action, you'll have to bite the bullet and build it
-yourself.
-
-

Building Chimera
-
-Follow all of the instructions here for building Cocoazilla and CocoaEmbed. Although you don't technically have to build CocoaEmbed, you do have to use Project Builder to build the NSBrowserView framework in mozilla/embedding/browser/cocoa.
+The newest build is 0.2.0.

-Once you have a Cocoazilla build, you should then pull the chimera files. You should check out from the directory above your mozilla source tree, so that you end up with chimera as a sibling directory of mozilla.
+Download Chimera here.
+

+

What's New In 0.2.0
+

+The latest build of Chimera demonstrates a highly experimental
+implementation of Quartz rendering. The current build locks you
+into Quartz, but the Quickdraw renderer will still be available
+via a pref in a later point release. For now you're locked into
+Quartz with the current build. Also, printing with Quartz turned on
+is pretty busted, so don't even bother. :)
+

+Chimera 0.2.0 has much improved scrolling over previous versions.
+Most importantly it now uses native Aqua scrollbars rather than
+emulating the look via the Appearance Manager. Scrolling is also
+much faster, using both the wheel and the keyboard.
+

+The tab browser feature has had some crash fixes and speed
+enhancements. You can now also cycle through tabs via the keyboard
+and close tabs. In addition the tab strip will auto-hide when only
+one tab is being used.
+

+Support for Command and Shift clicking of links has been added. You
+can use Command+Click to open a link in a new window. If you use the
+Shift modifier, the window will load in the background. You can also
+make Command/Shift open tabs instead by setting the same pref that is
+used by Mozilla. The load links in background pref that Mozilla uses
+is also supported by Chimera. (These prefs aren't exposed in Chimera's
+UI yet, so you'll have to enter your secret .mozilla dir and edit your
+prefs.js by hand.)
+

+Chimera 0.2.0 has a new splash screen, application icon, and new toolbar
+and sidebar icons.
+

+Finally and most importantly Chimera has had many crash fixes and
+stability fixes.
+

+Enjoy!
+Dave
+(hyatt@netscape.com)
+
+

Building Chimera

-You should then open up the chimera project in Project Builder and build it. It will handle copying all of the files that it needs out of the mozilla source tree and will produce a complete Chimera.app that you can then run.
-

-Be patient with the build process. You may find that CocoaZilla is on the floor from time to time (or that Chimera is on the floor even though CocoaZilla builds). We'll do our best to keep the Chimera side of things operational, but we can't guarantee stability in the mozilla source tree.
+Chimera has complete build instructions on mozilla's Web pages (under
+the code name ChimChim). You can find those instructions
+here.
+Be aware that the downloadable build listed above contains numerous
+patches to Mozilla that have not yet been accepted, so any builds that
+you do will not be as stable or as performant as the downloadable
+build above.

If you have questions about building, use the chimera mailing list or hop on to #mozilla, and someone can help you out.